And is this exactly not happening in AZ? And is that not exactly what was predicted to happen if the MMP actually occurred? Look at what really happened.
Major drop in border crossings in the Tuscon Sector.
BIG TIME inconvenience for and decrease in drug trafficking in the Tuscon Sector.
BIG TIME inconvenience for the mexican goverment Groupa Beta and the mexican army to (get this) stop and divert their own soon-to-be criminal illegal aliens to other sectors that do not have MMP Border Watchers present.
Increase in illegal alien spotted/apprehended ratio.
No cross border sniping.
I stood nearly eye to eye with the boys in the mexican army trucks at the pipeline on the Naco line. Strapped on a Glock 21 while grinning at them. Distance, 25 feet. Was not a damn thing they could do except round up their border busters and go somewhere else.
Priceless.
I think I need to be more clear. The situation I spoke of in Nuevo Laredo (border town of Mexico-Texas) is not a "might happen." It is an already-existing, volatile situation that has been reported here and on news sites for the last several weeks.
Hundreds of Mexican federales were sent to Nuevo Laredo to stem the violence there- but as was predicted, the violence escalated, at least initially. And people were shot in Texas, across the border, very recently. There is an alert in that area because nobody is safe if there are within 'shooting distance' of the border.
So to throw the minutemen into such a situation will only amplify the fears of our border agents that someone else is going to get killed, on our side or their's. You might disagree with that position, but I bet you'll at least see the mm wait a good long while before trying to go to Laredo/Nuevo Laredo.